http://hughryan.org Freelance writer Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First published on VICE.com, August 30, 2014. Read the original, with photos, here. What if John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe stole a time-traveling DeLorean and teleported to the future to get married? That’s the burning question answered in Once Upon a Dream, filmmaker J. B. Ghuman Jr.’s new art project. ... http://hughryan.org/j-b-ghuman-jrs-once-upon-a-dream First published on VICE.com, August 17, 2014. Read the original, with photos, here. Trans author and artist Sybil Lamb was living in George W. Bush’s version of The Hunger Games—also known as post-Katrina New Orleans—when two men beat her with an iron pipe, taking a chunk out of her skull, and ... http://hughryan.org/trans-writer-sybil-lamb-wrote-a-novel-about-surviving-a-hate-crime First published on The Daily Beast, August 3, 2014. Read the original here. Forever ago in the mid ’60s, a sylph of a girl named Edie Sedgwick captivated the world—or at least Andy Warhol, and through his Factory and his films and his photos, everything and everyone else ... http://hughryan.org/a-warhol-girl-with-banksy-talent First published in The Guardian, August 3, 2014. Read the original here. We grew common begonias when I was little: in terra cotta pots tucked on occasional tables, as borders around the “real” plants (irises, lilies, pansies, impatiens and endless roses), and in the shady areas in the ... http://hughryan.org/459 First published on The Daily Beast, August 3, 2014. Read the original, with photos, here. Once, after the midnight premiere of a summer blockbuster, I got trapped on the top floor of a giant multiplex. Three packed showings let out simultaneously, and the theater, in all its infinite ... http://hughryan.org/smells-like-teen-terror First published on The Daily Beast, August 1, 2014. Read the original, with photos, here. Written with Sassafras Lowrey. SASSAFRAS LOWREY: When I was seventeen, the adults I lived with went through my bedroom and found the lesbian books I’d secretly checked out from my county library. I kept ... http://hughryan.org/462